Tuesday, March 31, 2009

178 Garfield

from the bb8 annals of lurking....I was clicking through my bookmarks tonight when I came across the site of, Levenson McDavid Architects
their website has a great show of the firms' beautiful work, via their portfolio. I must have looked at it a hundred times before but for some reason,

'178 Garfield' jumped out at me tonight.

When I sat down to write this post, and began mentally, blathering on about old bones, and the juxtaposition of modern and antique, organic and industrial, blah, blah, blah, I had a total sense of deja vu.

Love, love the moulding, the fireplace the soft gray walls. the little row of polaroids {?} lined up on the mantel.
{those chandies. not a fan. just a personal thing}

the Morraccan rug, the Bertoias with the wood dining table.

And then I got to the gray bedroom. That insanely devine gray bedroom.

I stopped.

Wait, a second. Is it? Go back to the yellow sofa shot.

oh yes. This is that home featured on the cover of one of domino's last issues.

Of course, with domino's website 'expired' I had no way of confirming {although could you forget those parquet floors in the bathroom? }. So with a bit of stellar sleuthing {i.e. looking through a couple of back issues I have stacked on my shelf next to me}

I confirmed, it is indeed the home of J. Crew, Creative Director, Jenna Lyons Mazeau. So my apologie if you've seen this a thousand times over. But it's still a completely divine little mixture of all things fabulous with a helping of 'old house lovin'' thrown in for good measure.

"A townhouse gut renovation retained the historic 19th Century detail, yet introduced modern conveniences such as high-efficiency central heating/air-conditioning while giving expression to the sensibilities of this fashion designer/sculptor couple and their young son."

ok, miss jennie, let's get to work! You know I love your choices thus far- We just need to pull it all together.

mrs. b ,I'm so attracted to the dark cabinetry too. I think in a backlash from all of the white, subway tiled, farm kitchen sinks of recent years (albiet a beautiful look) I'm all about the dark kitchen.

Loved it the first time I saw it, love it still. When the photos ran in Domino, I decided to paint my living room gray.Sadly, that's the only thing my home will ever have in common with Ms. Lyons-Mazeau's.

wow--as much as i love domino, i love these photos of this home even more. it has a much more open feel than i realized. after seeing these and the sneak peaks on design*sponge this morning, it's settled. charcoal grey bedroom this weekend. gorgeous.

I agree with you about the chandeliers. The room is "way" too smal, anyway. The rest of the house is pretty - it's very reminiscent of a London Victorian terraced house, such as those in Chelsea, but I suspect not?